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[[File:The Open court (1887) (14786963093).jpg|thumb|right|coin of Kibotos]]The city minted its own coins in antiquity. The name [[Kibotos|Cibotus]] appears on some coins of Apamea, and it has been conjectured that it was so called from the wealth that was collected in this great emporium; for kibôtos in Greek is a chest or coffer. Pliny (v. 29) says that it was first Celaenae, then Cibotus, and then Apamea; which cannot be quite correct, because Celaenae was a different place from Apamea, though near it. But there may have been a place on the site of Apamea, which was called Cibotus.
The country about Apamea has been shaken by earthquakes, one of which is recorded as having happened in the time of [[Claudius]] ([[Tacitus|Tacit.]] ''Ann. '' xii. 58); and on this occasion the payment of taxes to the Romans was remitted for five years. [[Nicolaus of Damascus]] (''Athen. '' p. 332) records a violent earthquake at Apamea at a previous date, during the [[Mithridatic Wars]]: lakes appeared where none were before, and rivers and springs; and many which existed before disappeared. Strabo (p. 579) speaks of this great catastrophe, and of other convulsions at an earlier period. The [[92 BC Levant Earthquake]] likely affected the area as well.
[[File:Kibotos 1096.jpg|thumb|right|[[Battle of Kibitos]], 13th century manuscript]]Apamea continued to be a prosperous town under the [[Roman Empire]]. Its decline dates from the local disorganization of the empire in the 3rd century; and though a [[Diocese|bishopric]], it was not an important military or commercial center in [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] times. The [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] took it first in 1080, and from the late 13th century onwards it was always in [[Muslim]] hands. For a long period it was one of the greatest cities of [[Asia Minor]], commanding the Maeander road; but when the trade routes were diverted to [[Constantinople]] it rapidly declined, and its ruin was completed by an earthquake.<ref name="EB1911"/>
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